Community Gardening

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Build community, reconnect with the ground, capture carbon, and grow something beautiful and edible in a small green space. There is lots to recommend here. Be a part of it. Part of the VV Neighbourhood Food Network. Join VV to join this group.

If you're interested in participating in a VV community or collaborative garden, including our plots at Cottonwood Community Garden located just outside the Fieldhouse, or at one of our gardens in Kits or W. Pt. Grey, or are interested in a, new gardening project please contact commmunitygardening@villagevancouver.ca or ross@villagevancouver.ca.

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First off, we live in a rain forest. Of course the forest is gone in the Lower Mainland--and so is our once deep, rich, and healthy topsoil--so we have to deal with the challenge of hydrology, aka retaining water for our food gardens and controlling run-off to protect everything from our neighbour's property to our stream and ocean water quality and biodiversity.

Kits Village has a gardening collaborative group, with members gardening in the Kits Village Collaborative Garden (now in our 8th year), a Green Space, in our Permaculture in Planters project and also a couple small Permaculture Food Forests. New members are welcome. We helped helped start and participated in the Westside Collaborative Garden (2010-12), and members helped start and participate in the Kits Community Centre Collaborative Garden. We also have 3 seed libraries, dinner groups, a recycling depot, host drop-in spaghetti nights, etc.

At Cottonwood Community Garden (just outside our Fieldhouse),Village has Permaculture, Herb Spiral, Inner City Village and DTES Neighbourhood House plots. Village also sponsors Woodland Community Garden.

At Abethau, we garden weekly at our Collaborative Permaculture Garden in the Community Eco-Art Garden.

Village has a new Permaculture focused garden plot at Cottonwood Community Garden in Strathcona, and we're looking for one or two additional Villagers to garden collaboratively. Cost is $5/year…Continue

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New Community Garden opening up at Cambie Park (54th & Cambie). Sign up for a plot on Aug 20th from 7pm to 8:30pm at Marpole Community Centre (Upper Lounge). For more information, contact southvangreenthumbs@gmail.com

Just wanted to let everyone know that Still Creek Community garden has plots available. Located across from the 29th ave Skytrain station. We have lots of stuff happening this year at the garden including the introduction of Honey Bee hives!. If you or someone you know is looking to learn about gardening/beekeeping or wants to share their knowledge come join us!

Here is our original proposal for a new community collaborative garden in Riley Park near Little Mountain Neighbourhood House. First proposed by a Villager living just a half block away, this was picked up as a project by a local permaculture class, adopted by a board member of Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, and remains tied up in an application process with the City of Vancouver.

i am dealing with some aphids on my cabbage. on the internet i researched the use of neem oil to kill them. has anyone used this with any success? can you suggest anything better? i also would like to find a resource for purchasing parasitic wasps and ladybugs, can anyone help? thanks!

hello! i am starting some gardens in neighbor's yards and i am looking for some inexpensive compost bins or recycled supplies to make them. i am also interested in finding some compost worms. please contact me at lsamint@gmail.com if you have any information for me! thanks!!

Hello! We are looking for some fairly drought-tolerant vines for a community garden/beekeeping project... something like honeysuckle or grape. If you have any that need homes please let me know, hmjcarpendale@hotmail.com Thanks!